We’ll come right out and say it: Jesse James Firearms Unlimited is undoubtedly a boutique firearms manufacturer; they make weapons with flashy, cool designs, with or without intricate engraving, and attach high prices to said design. Given JJFU’s continued appearance at SHOT, and move to a bigger booth, this seems to be working quite well for them. And with that new booth, comes two new guns, the Stalin 12 and Califas Nomad.
Stalin-12
The Stalin-12 is an AK-pattern shotgun in the same vein as the Russian Saiga-12 and Vepr-12, but made in the USA with a milled receiver in lieu of a stamped receiver, and an AR-esque selector switch. Reportedly, the Stalin-12 will MSRP at ~$7000, although a final price hasn’t been set, yet. There’s a great irony in seeing such a high price tag on a weapon named after a Communist dictator, to be sure.
Califas Nomad
The Califas Nomad is a rifle built in the same vein as the ARES SCR, an AR-derivative rifle designed to be compliant in 2A-unfriendly states like New York and California, but with an unmistakable JJFU aesthetic. With a side charging handle, skeletonized forend, and fixed wood stock, the Califas Nomad is a neat looking piece, but it’s also gonna run you ~$3500.
Aren’t these the guys who made the $5,500 Britney Spears 1911?
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And you get a free Affliction t-shirt with every order…
LOL. Nailed it!
Britney Spears, Jessie James, Stalin…this must be a borderline WTF category material, Eric?
Sweet.
Any chances of a Hitler-20 or a Pol Pot-.410 in the near future? What about an Al Baghdadi-28?
Here I a’m wondering what King of Scotland Idi Amin would’ve preferred…
hahaha what a hack.
It costs seven grand to put an e-tool handle on a saiga?
You know… I didn’t think guns could suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but JJFU decided to break the mold.
Joseph Stalin was on par with Hitler in terms of people killed and general monstrosity. This is analogous to like a Hitler edition STG-44 clone. Go home JJFU, you’re drunk.
On par with Hitler? – Those that died under Stalin range from an estimated 20 million (1,830 deaths every single day) to 60 million (2 million killed during each year of Stalin’s reign – 40,000 every week, including during ‘peacetime’)
What, no swastikas?
I’m holding out for the subsonic Hermann Goering in .510 Beck.
Gotta be good to be that rich you can afford to have booth space you don’t use.
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Disclaimer – I have no idea if that’s actually what happened.